DAVID BOWIE - Cant Help Thinking About Me £600 1966 Mega Rare 7" Single

Great to listen to David Bowie here in 1966 after just signing to Pye Label (5 years or so before the world would know his name), 300 - 600 British Pounds would have bought you a copy of this original (if you can find one that is) but with the sad news of his death prices are set to rise. Why not subscribe as I post rarities regularly!! "Can't Help Thinking About Me" is a song written by David Bowie in 1965 and released as a single under the name David Bowie with The Lower Third. This was the first single released after he changed his name from David (also Davie) Jones to David Bowie. It was the first David Bowie record to be released in the US as well as the first time the name "Bowie" appeared under the songwriters credit. The song was recorded within 15 days of the 18-year-old Bowie signing to the Pye Records label as "David Bowie with the Lower Third" on 25 November 1965 through successful Producer and songwrite Tony Hatch. Hatch signed Bowie to the label based on two demos (this song and "Now You've Met the London Boys", as it was originally titled) proffered by Bowie's (then) manager Ralph Horton. The single and B side were both recorded in the basement of Pye's offices in Great Cumberland Place (Near Marble Arch, Central London) on 10 December 1965. Hatch also played piano on the single and provided backing vocals along with the rest of the group. The single was "promo launched" by Pye on 6 January 1966 at The Gaiety Bar, Bayswater. The launch party (for Pye records staff and music journalists) was paid for by a loan from businessman Raymond Cook, an agreement which took several years to untangle and eventually pay back. Among those who attended the launch party that evening was John Lennon's father Alfred Lennon who was also signed to the Pye label as an artist. Lennon Senior's presence was recalled as him being "highly inebriated" and asking the attendees "Do you know who I am?" "Can't help thinking about me" was officially released on Friday 14 January (and later released in the US by Warner Bros in May 1966), however the Lower Third split from Bowie on 28 January over financial disagreements regarding "who was being paid what" with manager Ralph Horton. Believing Bowie was not supporting their side of the argument, Graham Rivens, Phil Lancaster and Dennis Taylor ended their short-lived collaboration and reluctantly walked away, literally weeks after their record deal with Pye Records. A strikingly similar manipulation of "divide and rule" about money between Bowie and his band by the incumbent manager (Tony Defries) 7 years later with the Spider from Mars. The single failed to make either the UK or the US charts despite being reasonably well received by the critics at the time. A key collector's item today because of its rarity, the UK vinyl release averages over £600 per copy with the UK and US "Demonstration Only" copies achieving in excess of £1000. This video focuses on a rare vinyl record, identifying the original 1st rare pressing or the rarest version of the record, also the prices it sold for and features photos of labels and covers of the original record, subscribe to our channel if you love rare vinyl records #vinyl #collecting #records #rare